The Delivery Date and Notice extension from aheadWorks doesn’t make the checkout process longer – no additional steps appear on checkout page, just two fields which allow customers to choose delivery day and leave a delivery/postman notice when ordering from your store are added on the Shipping Method page.

Don’t provide delivery on Sundays or during Easter holidays? Same-day delivery is not available after 16:00? With Delivery Date and Notice extension you can easily indicate any day unavailable for delivery – recurrent day of week, recurrent date, any certain period or one single day.

With flexible Delivery Date and Notice configuration you can set up the delivery schedule convenient both for you and your customers, specify minimal interval between the order and delivery date and indicate the time when delivery is unavailable – all these settings take the minimum of your time and bring the maximum effect.

Features:

• Orders can be sorted/filtered by delivery date at backend
• Customer can define delivery date. If no delivery date is specified – the nearest available date is used
• Customer can specify delivery/postman notice
• Customizable time after which same-day delivery is unavailable
• Easy-to-tune and flexible unavailable dates/days configuration tool
• Minimal interval between the order and delivery date
• Easy 2-minute installation
• 100% open source
• 30 day money back – satisfaction guaranteed
• Lifetime bug free guarantee
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility
• Free upgrades at least in current version branch
• Our excellent support team is waiting to hear from you each business day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm GMT

You can find more information about this aheadWorks extension on the Delivery Date and Notice page.

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This is a bug fixing release with the following changes:

• Customers details messed in the queue
• Unquoted expressions in back quotes in template filter
• Incorrect work of ‘View Rule’ action in the Link Tracking grid
• Impossible to configure Email chain of the rule in IE
• Unexpected redirecting when clicking the ‘Send now’ or ‘Cancel’ button in the Email preview window in IE 7/8
• “Send only to newsletter subscribers” rule option for unsubscribed customers
• Link tracking page crash when applying filter in grid
• Minor changes

Please, find more information about Follow Up Email on the extension page.

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The new version of the Help Desk Ultimate extension offers you advanced multistore support! Now with a new possibility to create multiple email gateways you can add as many gateways as you need. Moreover, you can assign these gateways to departments what gives you an ability to perfectly tune your support workflow and considerably reduce time on tickets managing.

One more feature which makes work with tickets more flexible is ticket priority. This new option allows you to specify the level of ticket urgency when you for example, reassign ticket to other department. With status changes history feature you will be able to trace the history of all communications!

Tired of spam emails? The improved anti-spam system of Help Desk Ultimate 2.6 can secure help desk departments from losing on unwanted messages processing. Stop the flow of unsolicited emails and receive the help desk tickets only!

Check out other features we’ve prepared for this release

New features implemented in Help Desk Ultimate 2.6:

• Advanced multistore support
• Multiple email gateways support
• Advanced Product Questions extension integration
• Improved auto-submitters protection
• Incoming mail attachments support
• Tickets priority
• Offensive ticket ID filtering
• Variables parsing in departments templates
• Status changes history
• Tickets grid view speedup
• SQL queries optimization
• “Total” field in departments statistics
• Multistore support for departments statistics
• New log format – database instead of files, with ability to see the logs in admin grid
• Log auto-clearing
• New data storage algorithm
• External ticket view is now single-column
• Cron processes start control system, helps to avoid server overloads

The following bugs have been fixed:

• Memory limit bug
• 100% php load in some cases while receiving messages from gateway
• Bot protection sometimes treats human as a bot
• “Headers already sent” error
• Some template files are not compatible with disabled PHP short tags
• Tickets are not auto-assigned to departments in some cases
• seed.phtml is not IE8 compatible
• Wrong email for tickets parsed from Product Questions
• Wrong date appears if ticket status was changed from the list view
• Simple filters are very slow
• Minor security fix with attachments
• Creation of new tickets from email can’t be turned off

As you can see Help Desk Ultimate has become even more flexible and a bulk of new possibilities has been added. That’s why we’ve developed Help Desk Ultimate User Guide which will help you to set up this aheadWorks extension maximally efficiently for you online store. In the Guide you will find out how to manage departments and tickets, learn how to integrate the Product Questions extension and standard Magento Contact Form, get the illustrated description of gateways and cron configuration, and much more.

To download free User Guide in PDF and find more information about Help Desk Ultimate, please visit the extension page.

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The first units had been barely released when the list of Advanced Reports attachments was enlarged! Four new units are waiting for your approval:

The Sales by ZIP Code report displays sales data grouped by ZIP code. This is a kind of geographical report which allows you to analyze the sales in different parts of your city, state or the whole country.

With the Sales by Coupon Code report type you can get the complete information about orders made with coupons usage. This is a perfect way to analyze promotions results.

The Users Wishlists report allows you to observe which products have been added to customers’ wishlists. Moreover, you can find out when the product has been added and how many days this item is in the wishlist.

The New vs. Returning Customers report allows you to make a comparative analysis of new customers who made the 1st order during the selected period with returning customers who made the 2nd and more orders within the same time.

The Advanced Reports extension by aheadWorks is more stable now as the following minor bugs have been fixed:

• Filtering doesn’t work in Opera
• Filtering doesn’t work for “store”, “datetime” and “select” column types
• Sorting for report without data error
• Standard “strptime” function is not used anymore
• Varien_Object() error for Magento v.1.2.0.2

Please find more information about units and the Advanced Reports module on the extension page.

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Hot news! Today the new version of one of the most downloaded modules in Magento Connect – Blog Extension by aheadWorks – has been released. And what is more notable, the features YOU were asking for in our Forum have been implemented:

• Switchable categories ID in blog post URL
  If you consider categories ID unnecessary for blog post URL and they are not good for SEO, enable them and the problem is solved!
• Switchable menu categories
  Don’t want the blog categories to be displayed in menu? Just one click and the categories are enabled!

The following bugs have been fixed in this version:

• SQL error while retrieving posts for store on frontend fixed
• Post is accessible from inaccessible store fixed
• Hardcoded labels
• Sitemap containing posts from other stores was generated for store

You can find more information about this free aheadWorks extension on the Blog page.

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With the Customer Purchases extension by aheadWorks it is easy to quickly view what each customer has bought. The new version offers you even more possibilities – the Item Status and Order Status fields added to purchases grid allow you to get a complete snapshot of each customer’s purchase!

One more advantage is displaying product options at Customer Information page. Get more information about the purchased products and avoid loading additional pages. Quite handy for promotions and discount planning, support, isn’t it?

To get more information about this aheadWorks extension, please visit the Customer Purchases page.

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Since version 2.0 the Advanced Reports extension supports the units attachment what means that you can set up Advanced Reports 2.* for your store and add the reports YOU need:

The Customers by country report displays sales data grouped by country. This report type allows you to compare the total number of accounts created in your store for a certain period of time with the quantity of accounts from which orders have been made.

With the Sales by Manufacturer report you can learn how many products of a certain manufacturer have been bought for a defined period of time.

The Sales Statistics features average order amount and average item cost data. This information is displayed on the chart. The other sales data (the number of orders, items, subtotal, tax, discounts, etc.) is reflected in this report type as well.

These three units just top the list and their number will be enlarged in the nearest future. Remember that you can always ask for report you require!

Unit’s engine is not the only new feature we would like to inform you about. One more piece of good news is that with the new version of Advanced Reports you get an opportunity to filter data in Sales Report – now all the values (SKU, product name, manufacturer, cost, etc.) are available for filtering.

Besides, the Advanced Reports extension allows you to get more precise and complete information – a new Total field has been added to all reports types.

Moreover the extension works more stable than before as the following bugs have been fixed:

• Small resolution formatting
• Advanced Reports sorting

Please find more information about Advanced Reports units on the extension page.

Note that units don’t work separately – only as an attachment for the Advanced Reports extension 2.*

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We are glad to announce that everything concerning free Blog module can be discussed in our Forum, namely in a new topic devoted especially to this software – Blog extension by aheadWorks. You can touch upon any item you are interested in:

General Questions
Here you can ask and answer different questions about the Blog module.

Feature Requests
If you need any feature missing in Blog, tell us about it in this topic. All your ideas will be submitted for consideration.

Bugs
There is no limit to perfection and we do our best to keep Blog clean of bugs.

User Contributions
Share code snippets, theme tricks, custom stuff, translations – everything you’d like to share with our users community.

Feel free to express your thoughts in the Blog extension by aheadWorks topic of our forum.

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Those who understand the importance of newsletters in improving customer retention and boosting sales gain one more advantage – multistore support in the Advanced Newsletter extension! Set up this aheadWorks module individually for each store and get a higher ROI from your newsletter marketing.

Consider the Subscribe block/button not visible enough? With Advanced Newsletter you can place it anywhere you like. Everything you should do is to insert the CMS block at the place you require. Spend two minutes and watch how your subscriber base increases.

The new Automated customers subscription feature allows subscribing customers and moving them from one segment to another automatically on any order events (order became pending, canceled, complete etc.). You can specify the rules so when for example, customers change the order status to “Closed” in French store, to “Canceled” in the Furniture category or just include certain SKUs in the shopping cart, they will be automatically subscribed to the category(s) you’ve specified. Let Advanced Newsletter target your subscribers with the most relevant content!

Full overview of this release

New features have been implemented:

• Ability to insert subscription button/form via CMS block
• Automated customers subscription basing on admin-defined rules
• Multistore support
• Phone and Salutation fields added to subscription form
• Delete, Subscription and Unsubscription options for subscribers from admin area
• Adding and Editing subscribers from admin area
• MailChimp unsubscription synchronization

The following bugs have been fixed:

• New customer registration
• Segment selection in customer area
• JavaScript fixes and addings
• Incorrect work with old subscribers
• Ability to create duplicate of segment with the same code
• Synchronization button works correctly with multistore
• Correct work with https
• Minor bugfixes

Please visit the Advanced Newsletter page to get more information about this aheadWorks extension.

News, Updates Advanced Newsletter, Extensions

We are glad to announce the minor release of the Product Updates Notifications extension where the following bugs have been fixed:

• Javascript fix (incorrect “punDetect” variable declaration)
• Usage of prefixes in database table names
• Correct work with https

You can find more information about this aheadWorks extension on the Product Updates Notifications page.

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